"We don’t know what we see; we see what we know."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Showing posts with label perceptual learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perceptual learning. Show all posts
STUDY: Expertise in pictorial perception: Eye-movement patterns and visual memory in artists and laypeople
An instance of disciplined perception: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces... more»
CLASSIC: Bruner & Goodman - Value and Need as Organizing Factors in Perception (1947)
This study (among others) was instrumental in highlighting the prominence of "cultural" aspects of mind right from within the fold of experimental psychology... more»
From 2005: "When it came to research...we all went strictly kosher, or at least we kept our yamulkes well pinned on! If I wanted to explore anything that sounded 'cultural,' I made it a point to use the most psychophysically exquisite cover I could find -- as with the so-called New Look in perception where, with the most meticulous controls going, I showed that kids overestimated the sizes of coins proportionately to their value, the more so for poor kids than better-off ones... The word 'culture' does not appear in the papers reporting those results, nor does the term 'meaning.' We'd already learned by then how to avoid quarrels with psychology journal referees!" (Bruner in Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues, 2005, p. 21)
STUDY: Professional Vision
A situated interactional account of how we learn to see in disciplined ways... paper»
This article investigates the discursive practices used by members of a profession to shape events in the domain of professional scrutiny they focus their attention upon. The shaping process creates the objects of knowledge that become the insignia of a profession’s craft: the theories, artifacts and bodies of expertise that are its special and distinctive domain of competence.
STUDY: Using brain scans, researchers find evidence for a two-stage model of human perceptual learning
This study provides the first human evidence for a two-stage model of how a person learns to place objects into categories more»
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